The Alleged Liberalism of Sir Edward Coke
Coke's legal-economic philosophy might be summed up in a phrase he used in Parliament in 1621: "That no Commodity can be banished, but by Act of Parliament."
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The Limits of Property Rights and the Problems of External Costs and External Economies
Carried through consistently, the right of property would entitle the proprietor to all the advantages that the good’s employment may generat
The Danger Not Over
it is only when great and good men are at the head of a nation that the people can expect to succeed in forming such barriers to counteract recent encroachments on their rights; and whenever a nation is so supine as to suffer such an opportunity to be lost, they will soon feel that the danger was not over.
